How about an #NBA All-Star Game in Boston?

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How about an #NBA All-Star Game in Boston? Celtics insider  Meghan Ottolini joins! What are her thoughts on Jaylen Brown's ASG comments?

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00:00we talked a little bit about all-star stuff yesterday but I did enjoy Jalen

00:06Brown practically demanding an all-star game here in our city. It was really nice

00:13because Jalen is like a Bay Area guy because he went to Cal and he's very

00:18proud of that and he does a lot of stuff out there off the court and so he was

00:23saying a lot of nice things about the Bay and then when they asked him about

00:27where would you want the all-star game and about getting it to Boston he said

00:32something along the lines I'm gonna paraphrase of like yeah I think it

00:35would be like there wouldn't be empty seats here kind of it's you know it's a

00:39bit of an elbow. It's been 61 years since there was an NBA all-star game in

00:45Boston which seems kind of ridiculous. Well so there are rules I believe around

00:49the all-star game because it's not just the game itself as we know it's the

00:53whole weekend and these rules are so esoteric they're so random it's like

00:58you have to have an Expo Center that's a certain square footage and the Expo

01:03Centers that currently exist in Boston are just a little bit short of that

01:06including the one in the seaport to which I'd say okay there's like four

01:09hotels across the street from that Expo Center because it's an Expo Center. Can't we get a waiver or something?

01:14Overflow into one of the ballrooms like these should not be the if you want to

01:19get more attention on All-Star Weekend put it in a city that is one of the

01:25tentpoles of the league which is Boston. Also add a little bit more space like

01:29there's plenty of room off the back of that Expo Center you and I live very

01:32close to it and just add more if they're just short it's like and I'm with you

01:37because Jalen Brown love him but everybody is always like he hates Boston

01:41hates Boston hates Boston for him to say that it was a it was a clear indicator

01:45that he does not hate it here. He knows that the city has juice when it comes to

01:49basketball and that they would come out for an All-Star game if the city does

01:53love basketball. Hopefully by that time it'll be Team USA versus the world that'll be

01:57pretty cool. If there's such a demand for basketball here what do you feel about

02:01Donnie Wahlberg bringing a WNBA team? I love it I think they're striking at

02:05exactly the right time I know that there's a similar proposal in St. Louis

02:09and Jason Tatum talked about that being a St. Louis guy at the All-Star game I

02:13think it would just be so cool you see the Connecticut Sun attracting a lot of

02:19fan attention and define a lot okay I know I know it's a growing league is the

02:25point and they're gonna play in our I think at fan wise at our court at

02:31Echelon. I understand it's growing growing in a different way with the

02:44Katelyn Clark phenomenon is but you feel like there's been comments Katelyn

02:48Clark's never gonna make enough money than what she's worth like she's such a

02:51good basketball player the WNBA can't afford her. The league always loses money

02:54so that's the biggest issue right the league the WNBA lost what 40 or 50

03:01million last season so it's hard for you to say somebody needs to be paid more

03:08when your league is losing money. Right but she I agree with that but she's also

03:13let's not pretend like she's not the catalyst as to why it's not just the

03:17WNBA the attention on women's college basketball has just exploded in recent

03:23years if they can keep that momentum going and it's on the league and it's on

03:27the college game to keep that momentum going and support the stars that fans

03:32feel compelled to watch like the interest in women's in women's NCAA

03:41basketball does not translate to the pros and I watch unrivaled and rival

03:45does not doing anything even the NCAA women's basketball yeah fans still like

03:50it but they don't have the drama there's no drama there you know Juju Watkins is

03:54a tremendous player for USC and there's no real drama there with with the

04:00players the biggest drama that we heard about was South Carolina playing the

04:06girl what's her name from LSU I mean we're not even a March Madness no I know

04:12going on with a double amen no college men's basketball I agree with you is I

04:17just feel like it's gonna be very difficult because you want to like you

04:22said sustain some of that it might have been cool I was hoping that she played

04:25an unrivaled maybe to to play and kind of keep some of that momentum going but

04:30now it's like all right we got to wait till the next season of the WNBA I'm not

04:34gonna pretend like there's not major challenges to women's basketball I just

04:38think that it's cool that you get a high-profile person locally like Donnie

04:43Wahlberg and a group that's trying to push for that to have a place in Boston

04:48like that that's awesome to me but the biggest issue for women's sports is that

04:52women by and large don't support it yeah like Wiggy's probably the biggest

04:56supporter I know like Wiggy watches a decent amount of women's basketball and

04:59then that's out of the drama and the W no no I don't I actually like I actually

05:04like watching women's college I wouldn't I wouldn't paint with such a

05:10broad brush I mean I think that Serena Williams has generations of fans at this

05:16point my friends who are into tennis male and female a single like just so

05:22it's she's the best you know it's not even a conversation

05:26complete non sequitur just for a minute because you brought up only fans did you

05:32see the you see what the average creator on only fans makes no and I

05:38don't want to know because it just you do want to know enticing every time you

05:42do yeah like I wouldn't be having sex but it's the whole thing is for except

05:48for like five people it's a it's an absolute joke

05:52oh it's a scam variety did this whole thing uh-huh they got all the data the

05:57average creator on only fans any guesses I'll guess yeah $630 I bet now

06:08if you if you present it like that I bet we're looking at like a hundred and

06:10twenty three bucks $2,500 $1,300 a year $108 a month wait Wiggy you were a

06:16little too close because he said that it isn't as much as we thought it was so I

06:22mean you go there you got to be able to at least make a hundred bucks a month I

06:26made ten bucks in my four days on there a little bit of good news Celtics wise I

06:32guess Brad Stephens is not interested said this week he's not interested in

06:36going anywhere so whoever the new ownership group is they will I guess

06:41have the luxury of having the services of redstone here Brad Stephens I was not

06:45really concerned about that for people who weren't following there was some

06:47speculation maybe go back to the sidelines at Indiana get back into the

06:51coaching game but why would you do that now why would you I and unless you had a

06:55sense that whoever is gonna emerge as the new owner would come in and say we

07:00don't really like the way Brad's doing things which nobody will say because

07:03everyone kind of unanimously agrees that right now he's the best GM in basketball

07:11right like this doesn't mean he might have that itch where he misses the

07:15passion didn't Pat Riley do that though yeah he's also got he's also got kids

07:19here though who are playing and you know he's kind of a parent where he I think

07:24he wants to have his I think he probably likes it do you think Sam

07:28Cassell is out I'm really nervous about that because his alma mater FSU is

07:33talking to him about going and being the head coach there he hasn't totally ruled

07:38it out but last I checked he said that it wasn't um and if according to steeple

07:42pet said that it wasn't any official communication yet he would be a huge

07:47loss because he does a lot to support that team to support Joe Missoula I

07:52would not like to see Sam Cassell leave midseason at least make it back to the

07:56finals and then after that go take your opportunities

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